Russia's records

The results of implementation of the Putin-Medvedev projects require no comments. Russia is ahead of the entire planet in the decrease of the population, and 134^th in the population's life expectancy. All you have to do is google these keywords: "Russia's place in the world" (which was done by our editors in the Russian language) and see what comes up... For the most part the results are sad, namely:

 

1^st place in the world in absolute value of population's decrease

 

1^st place in the world in deaths from cardiovascular diseases

 

1^st place in the world in sales of hard liquor

 

1^st place in the world in consumption of alcohol and alcohol-based beverages

1^st place in the world in the number of smoking children

 

1^st place in the world in the number of airplane crashes

 

1^st place in the world in the increase of tobacco smoking

 

1^st place in the world in the growth rate of the number of HIV-infected persons

 

1^st place in the world in the physical volume of export of diamonds

 

1^st place in the world in the volume of trading humans

 

1^st place in the world in the number of automobile accidents

 

1^st place in the world in the number of billionaires prosecuted by law enforcement

 

1^st place in the world in the import of Chinese automobiles in the first half of 2007

 

2d place in the world in the number of abortions

 

2d place in the world in the number of submarines

 

2d place in the world in the number of convicts per 1,000

 

2d place in the world in exporting weapons

 

2d place in the world in distribution of fake medicines

 

2d place in the world in the level of bureaucracy

 

2d place in the world in the number of journalists killed over the past ten years

 

2d place in the world in the suicide rate, after Lithuania

 

2d place in the world among manufacturers of pirated CDs

 

2d place in the world in the list of countries possessing the largest number of firearms

 

2d place in the world in the number of children adopted in the US

 

2d place in the world in the number of people seeking asylum in industrially developed Western countries, Serbia being the first on the list

 

3d place in the world in the number of totalitarian sects

 

3d place in the world in the inflow of migrants

 

3d place in the world in distribution of child pornography

 

3d place in the world in car thefts

 

3d place in the world in the number of mobile phone subscribers

 

3d place in the world in the number of refugees

 

3d place in the world in the list of the most smoking countries

 

4^th place in the world in the reserves of zirconium

 

4^th place in the world in the number of books published

 

4^th place in the world in consumption of low-alcohol beverages

 

5^th place in the world in genetic health

 

6^th place in the world in use of decorative and medical cosmetics

 

8^th place in the world in the number of foreign students

 

14^th place in the world in the volume of gold in the federal reserve

 

15^th place in the world in the number of Internet users

 

16^th place in the world in the gross domestic product

 

21^st place in the world in the number of inventions patented

 

27^th place in the world in the quality of education

 

32d place in the world in the ecological rating of the countries

 

43d place in the world in the economy's competitiveness

 

51^st place in the world among the most corrupted countries

 

57^th place in the world in quality of living

 

62d place in the world in the level of technological developments: between Costa Rica and Pakistan

 

67^th place in the world in standard of living

 

70^th place in the world in using advanced information and communication technologies

 

97^th place in the world in profits per capita

 

115^th place in the world in the level of economic freedom

 

127^th place in the world in the population's health indexes

 

134^th place in the world in life expectancy

 

147^th place in the world (out of 168) in the level of freedom of the press

 

159^th place in the world in the level of political rights and freedoms

 

175^th place in the world in the level of physical safety of citizens

 

182d place in the world in the overall death-rate from the list of 207 countries

 

Source: Trezvaya Rossia

 

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